Atif Shafiq, from Walthamstow, has been handed a six-month sentenced after he left an officer needing stitches after an attack at a rally in Whitehall.
A father-of-four has been jailed after he struck a police over over the head with a megaphone at a pro-Palestine protest.
The 41-year-old appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday wearing a t-shirt with a Palestine flag and "love Palestine" on the back.District Judge Denis Brennan told Shafiq his actions could have "provoked a volatile reaction from the crowd".Prosecutor Anushka Levey said Shafiq pulled the red megaphone he was wielding "to shoulder height" before he "hit the victim around the head".
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